Resistance: SSG Vanhorn Series Book 3 by Toby Neighbors

Author:Toby Neighbors [Neighbors, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952260278
Amazon: B0949MBDQ7
Goodreads: 57989356
Publisher: #PrB.rating#4.56
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Four days after the takeover of Havvar, we set out on our first transmission run. The communications unit was working, but we couldn’t test it in the city without drawing attention to our mountain. The last thing anyone wanted was for the Orcs to come looking for us. The scouts still reported Orrkasi ships passing by; a few even flew over the mountains. So far, they’d failed to see our sentries and did nothing that made it seem like they knew where we were.

Other than the handful of people who stood guard at the entrance to the city, the survivors stayed inside and out of sight. The Polytrots were much more active. As natural hunters, they went out in packs, mostly at dusk, to hunt in the canyons that skirted the mountain range. They brought back a variety of game, which the survivors cooked to supplement our rations.

We were also conducting a systematic search of the city. It was a valuable find that would be studied for decades by xenoarchaeologists, not to mention the Fleet’s scientists. With that in mind, I assembled an exploration team. They not only went through the buildings on each level, starting with the tunnels leading out of the city, but they also made notes on everything they saw. In the event that the Orrkasi found us, we needed to know the city well enough to plan our escape. We also needed to be able to give detailed reports on the city when the Fleet rescued us, particularly if the Orcs had taken over the underground city or, worse yet, destroyed it in their efforts to eradicate us.

Each tunnel led to a different part of the mountain. Two were blocked by falling rock. One led to the canyon that we were watching day and night, while two others led to parts of the mountain. Of these, one was high up on an open spot that was ideal for an aerial craft to land. Our drop ships were smaller and lighter than the Orrkasi transports, so the section of level ground was the perfect size. The other tunnel was only two stories above the area where we had made our base of operations. It was much longer than the other tunnels and led to a ravine deep inside the chain of mountains.

We didn’t open the blocked passages completely. Trip got the scout drone working again, so in each tunnel, we cut a hole big enough for the drone and sent it out to survey the surroundings. That way, we didn’t have multiple passages to guard. I would have liked to use the lowest tunnel when we set out on our first transmission run, since it led to a more secluded section of the mountains and would have made us less vulnerable to being seen. The Polytrots, however, needed to get to the canyons to hunt. Outside the canyons, there was only sporadic small game, and keeping nearly thirty people fed took more food than the desert alone could provide.

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